Town Council - Regular Meeting

agenda is approval of the September 2nd Council of Minutes. Any questions or comments on the minutes? Hearing none, entertain a motion. Motion to approve. Motion by Mr. Chatham.

Second. Second, Mr. Herby. All in favor? Aye. Opposed?

Motion carries 5-0. Any public comments, Mr. Morgan?

I've had no request to speak tonight, but I would like to request a change in the agenda. At the end of our agenda items, I'd like to add Another item for a master services agreement with the lock dealer group for the NPO grant and that will be presented by the assistant general manager.

I'll move to amend the agenda to add item H, the MSA requirements.

Awesome. Yeah.

And whereas public law 915 guarantees the issuing of a proclamation each year by the President of the United States of America, designated September 17th through the 23rd as Constitution Week. Now, therefore, we, by virtue of the authority vested in us as the town council of Danville, the state of Indiana, Is there a question for college?

Motion. a plenty of beer for everyone if you wish next up i wish to be heard free closure mr ford good evening this event is the danville homecoming parade sponsored by danville community high school it takes place on 10-2 street closures and staging is at 4 p.m the parade time is 5 30 to 7 o'clock p.m The stitching area will start on South Washington Street and West Broadway and go down south to Blake Street.

And then Blake Street will proceed south to Lincoln Street. And then on Lincoln, it will go west to 39th.

That will be at 4 p.m. And then the parade will start on South Washington Street and West Broadway Street, going north to Marion Street, west on Marion Street to Kentucky Street,

to Lincoln Street and West on Lincoln Street and ends at South elementary school if I may I did speak with the county manager about this they had some issues with the use of their parking lot government center they advised me that as long as it starts they don't congregate until 4 15. they give their employees plenty of time to

Thank you.

Any questions or comments?

I'll tell you, we have a lot of questions coming up from all over the country, so we're going to entertain a motion. The only question I got is, apologies, the only question I got is for the DJ at the old staging area. I don't understand.

Does that come through part of the cemetery?

Yeah, we'll be using some of this in the cemetery for safety. We've got the sign off.

I just want to double check.

There's going to be a significant more number of solicitors. This is fine. I just don't remember utilizing that space last year, which is why I asked. Make sure we've got the sign off. Make sure it's there. I'd say everybody is. I was gonna look down there for a question. Okay, motion.

I'm going to approve the street closure. Motion by Mr. Hervey. Second. Seconded by Mr. Dobbs. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Motion carries 5-0. Thank you.

Chair Sherlock, Mr. Ford on the wayfinding. Okay. I'd like to present an entire package that the wayfinding committee has.

for you.

These are the entry beam signs. There'll be seven of them. We feel that they improve the first impressions of the town on entry. And then there's a little bit of patience there. And we have eight public parking signs. with lock numbers for easier identification, as well as its street labels and locations. Is this the same company we used for the last ones?

Yes. Are they fixing that one up there or replacing the one at the map that's burned?

but now they're going to put it into the same thing again and then ask us to pay to come fix it later. There's a map on one of the signs I saw. Yeah, that one's going on the square. So that map's like 12 years old. And we requested as part of this to have that one done. And also there's some fixes to the roundabout design.

Cool, thank you. That's why we're paying this company.

Mr. Lofton.

be Mark Morgan, myself, David Newell, Lua Lacy, represented from Bainey Engineering, and two council members. I'm looking for the two council members tonight.

represented from Banning Engineering and two council members.

And just to be clear on this one, this is phase one of the county home devastation and wastewater. We have it, I'd say 95% designed.

So that's why we're doing phase one first.

itself on on both of these i've had a number of discussions with mr lawton on this and most of you know i'm still not totally sober on the whole lot concept i've been given seem to be saying everything's going to be a bot. And I question the wisdom of that. And I know I've had a number of discussions with you, Barry, and Mr. Morgan as well. I kind of understand the rationale, but I still don't fully see it. And on the wastewater, on this month, on this claims list, it's $33,000 for engineering on the county homeless station. engineering and all of those were parts of the box. I just, it seems like we're breaking it apart, yet still building it.

So I can explain that a little bit. We entered into a contract for design a long time ago for the lift station.

This started out, my dates may not be exact, but in 2019, the master plan was built.

I believe shortly after that, we had a bond the numbers went from 1.3 million i believe it was 1.5 and then it went to five and now it's nine and it went to nine and now it's 14 and a half million some of that scope has changed because it would be the lift station you need to take that lift station all the way back to the plant there'll be redundancy as part of the center was a little bit added to the scope but it made sense because of the location was in dock the location was the creek and the condition at the of the lift station, and I also want to be clear here, this is not a product of growth. This is a product of a very old lift station that is literally beyond repair and needs replaced. I just want to be clear of that situation because it's not being done, it's being done to gain capacity. You have to do that for future growth, but this part of the operation is based off the condition of the lift station. I just want to make that clear. I'll be glad to try to go through and explain why we're doing each one of these. I don't mind. I think it's a good idea for you to understand that the town of Danville, the only money that we are going to spend as a part of this process is the design and engineering. That will not change in the future. It's only going to get more expensive to do both of those in the future. So we do the design, we acquire land, and then we do a BOT for the actual construction because the construction process and the design on those stations go hand in hand which will create efficiencies and maybe reduce the cost. And at the end of that, we come to the council and say, hey, we've got this plan, GM Managers has done their due diligence, and by getting quotes by several, we will present that to you, and then at that time, you make a decision to spend money to do that. If you choose not to do that, we bought it up, throw it in the trash can, and start over. So I see-

that someone is for us, right? Marks is out there getting the bids for four million companies or whatever. He's gonna show us their numbers that they can recommend using these people, right? So that's the part that makes me more comfortable.

I agree, it does look bad, do a bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, instead of the other, but on top of that, we're still getting the best bang for our buck by going this way.

And I might be able to figure out, to add to that, The BOTs that we've done so far was the East Interceptor. We were on a timeline. We also had several different funding mechanisms that only fit into the realm of the BOT. The streets that we're asking for to start this BOT process is because we are in August or we're in September going into October. We're going to have to thread a needle by getting a contractor that's qualified, getting them on the schedule, and getting the payment done before the end of December whenever our year-end closeout is for our budget. That's why that's being done this way. I know it seems like we're doing all these VLTs, but everything's kind of lining up because the process, the procurement method is lining up that we need to do these in a timely manner, in a manner that does not equate to going to public mail at that timeline. So they kind of line up in the alley. I can explain the alley. That was through an RDC project that legal counsel for RDC said, hey, the town needs to do this project. So we had to shift gears to try and get that area cleaned up for 20 West Main projects so that we're not destroying what they build and we're creating proficiencies there by doing things. So it kind of explains the timeline for these specific VOTs. I'm not saying they'll all come this way. It really just depends how it pans out. But again, you do not spend any money except for engineering and that does not change It really depends on if we're comfortable with the contractors that we get that are available to do the work. And all that's part of the process that we pin them down and say, hey, this has to be done and built to the town by last year, I think it was December 23rd, I don't know what that date is, but it's going to be built in December. They need to be completed and built.

Is encumbering that money an alternative option?

It is an alternative, but then we run into a timeline that has to be spent by March if i'm not correct you can correct me but i think that those funds have to be spent by march if you can cope with that money so you have to contract plans meeting and then it has to be fits then yes and then you know it depends on the weather when the plans open and then they do open the people that have million dollar projects come It does seem like we're kind of forcing the DOT, but really everything is lined up from the timeline expenditures. Everything is lined up for the tour that way.

Any other questions?

We can just move forward. Thank you. Thank you.

Next up, Warden 12-2026, food truck permit, Mr. Morgan.

outlining that they would be taking over the permitting of food trucks in 2027 in the state of Indiana. Therefore, a great reporting of the ordinance 12-2026, which is an appeal of section 114 of our current code of ordinances.

Ms. Lofton.

Yes, tonight is the public hearing for the 2027 budget. And if you wanted to talk about anything regarding the budget.

First, we have a public hearing. Shall we have one more public hearing? Anyone wishing to speak, please come forward. Seeing none, public hearing is closed. Any questions or comments? Hearing none, we move to the next hearing.

So BlockMule reached out to me as part of the grant that we applied for and didn't get last year.

They're doing another round. The pot is a lot bigger as far as money goes. And then also this year, they made it a two-year call. So if we don't apply this year, it's two years before we can apply again.

So I got a contract. because I think there's like 90 or 140 million as possible, and before it was like 40. So there were, I think he said there were six big projects, and only four were picked. We were one of the six now we're reapplying, so hopefully that would suit us a little better. And the problem from what to what?

I think it was like 40 or 60, and now it's either 90 or 100.

Ah, for the next two years.

For next year, but it's covering two years, they have no registration. Yeah. So they're, uh, the letting for it would be, like, 2030. So, pretty far out.

Let's do it. Uh, motion. I'll move to approve, um, the Law Compeller Master Services Agreement authorized by the House of Presidents of Colorado to sign on behalf of the Town

Nothing except I did sit in on another grant function. The Lilly Endowment came out with $400 million in park funding. So all the funding that went away, this is a different avenue for it. So I sat in on that. I'm hoping to make, I'll have to apply sometime in October. So I'm hoping to shoot for a $2 million grant. Absolutely.

Thank you. Mr. Young, is there anything from the legal department? No, sir. No, sir. We had our first kickoff meeting for a potential construction of some new firehouses, and I thought it was, I didn't know what to expect, but I thought it was extremely informative. As usual, we'll say what you want to do. Oh, I echo Mr. Chatham on Fair and Square.

It's a great event.

Interesting. I went on Saturday afternoon.

The place was packed. Other than my wife, the only

Mr. Herby. Second. Second, Mr. Chatham. All in favor?

Aye. All opposed? Motion carries 5-0. Disabled document. Move to approve payroll law. Mr. Herby second. Second, Mr. Chatham. All in favor? Aye. Motion to adjourn. So moved. Motion to adjourn. Second. Second. Mr. Chatham on favor.